Table 3 The indirect effects and conditional effects test.

From: Internet use, support for democracy and political participation: a comparative study of Chinese mainland and Taiwan

 

Effect

BootSE

LLCI

ULCI

Indirect effect (internet use → support for democracy → political participation)

 Taiwan

−0.001

0.001

−0.003

0.001

 Chinese mainland

0.001

0.001

−0.001

0.001

Conditional effects of internet use on support for democracy

 Taiwan

−0.005

0.009

−0.022

0.013

 Chinese mainland

0.012

0.007

−0.001

0.025

Conditional effects of internet use on political participation

 Taiwan

0.070

0.007

0.055

0.084

 Chinese mainland

0.045

0.006

0.034

0.055

Conditional effects of support for democracy on political participation

 Taiwan

0.111

0.026

0.060

0.162

 Chinese mainland

0.006

0.016

−0.024

0.036

  1. Statistical significance (*p < 0.05) is achieved when lower bound (LL) and upper bound (UL) CI does not include zero. Bootstrapped at sample size = 5000.
  2. LL lower limit, CI confidence interval, UL upper limit.
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